A case study of strategies for catalytic self-organization One of the recurrent themes of this blog is that urban self-organization is a powerful dynamic that ought to be of more interest (and use) to urban designers, planners and other actors. Th…

Two very different examples of place networks, not far from each other in London. Top photo, Seven Dials, offering a very complex, rich network, serving human users at a very high level of quality. Lower photo, an impoverished network, serving mac…

A report from a fact-finding delegation of the Council for European Urbanism (including this author) evaluates three new projects with tall buildings in the central city, and concludes the City is damaging centuries of heritage for short-term gain…

New research suggests there’s a surprisingly large hidden benefit from the network structures of urbanism – but we need new models to harness this powerful resource Author’s Note: This is a longer version of an article that first ran in The Atlant…